When renegade writer Kameron Hurley (The Light Brigade; The Celebrities Are Legion) takes you to the near future, be prepared for the unpredicted. Yes, it will be dangerous, frequently brutal, and often devastating. But it is also savagely funny, deliriously strange, and absolutely filled with adventure.

In these edgy, unexpected tales, a body-hopping mercenary avenges his pet elephant, and an orphan falls in love with a sentient starship. Fighters ally to power a reality-bending engine, and a swamp-dwelling introvert attempts to save lots of the world-from her plague-casting former wife.

So come meet up with Kameron Hurley in the future. The edition she’s created here’s weirder-and a lot more hopeful-than you could ever think about.